Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain

TED Talks: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically "teenage" behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain.

Successful Reading Intervention in Public School, Grades Three and Five: Full Behavioral Report, Joseph Torgesen, Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University, with impact evaluation by Mathematica Policy Research, Corporation for the Advancement of Policy EvaluationREAD MORE

Remedial Instruction Rewires Dyslexia Brain. A Cognitive Neurosciences Report: Marcel Just, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, Carnegie Mellon, and Vladimir Cherkassky of the CCBI, and John D.E. Gabrieli of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyREAD MORE

Ready to Read? Neuroscience Research Sheds Light on Brain Correlates of Reading: Brenda PatoineREAD MORE

Review of Research: Neuroscience and Reading: A Review for Reading Education Researchers: George HrubyREAD MORE

What Neuroscience Really Tells Us About Reading Instruction: Sally E. Shaywitz and Bennett A. ShaywitzREAD MORE